Kathleen Garretson was born on May 15,1963 and is an American television director, producer and podcaster.
20 Facts About Katy Garretson
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Katy Garretson has directed episodes of the sitcoms Frasier, 2 Broke Girls, Fuller House and the season one finale of the Punky Brewster reboot in 2021, among others, as well as producing Hallmark's Garage Sale Mystery movies.
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Katy Garretson received the Frank Capra Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America in 2012.
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Kathleen Katy Garretson was born in Nuremberg, West Germany, where her father, a Captain in the US Air Force, was stationed.
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Katy Garretson's parents were John Thomas Garretson, of Tucson, Arizona, where he earned his business degree from the University of Arizona, and Elinor Van Haltern, from Dallas, Texas, and a graduate of Southern Methodist University.
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Katy Garretson is a graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, earning degrees in both Journalism and Business Communications.
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Katy Garretson became interested in the film industry while working at her college job as a tour guide at Universal Studios.
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Katy Garretson's credits include the feature films Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Clifford, Switch and The Specialist.
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Katy Garretson continued to work as an assistant director on "movies of the week", features and commercials for several years, until she was hired to be an assistant director on the sitcom Frasier.
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Katy Garretson slowly segued out of being an AD on "single-camera" productions as her credit list on "multi-camera" shows grew.
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Katy Garretson then made her directorial debut during Frasier's sixth season.
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Katy Garretson was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy Director of 1999" for her first directing assignment.
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Katy Garretson continued to direct episodes of Frasier until the show's end in 2004.
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In January 2012, Katy Garretson was awarded the Frank Capra Lifetime Achievement Award from the DGA.
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Katy Garretson was the 26th recipient of this award since the Guild was founded, and it was presented to her by director Michael Apted.
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Katy Garretson served as an Associate National Board member and three-term Council Chair at the DGA, and on numerous guild committees.
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Katy Garretson currently serves the Directors Guild of America as a member of the PAC Leadership Committee, the Frank Capra Award Committee, and the Western Directors Council Ethics Committee.
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Katy Garretson had been a mentor and volunteer with the organization for many years, and was asked to oversee a rebuilding and revitalization of the foundation.
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Katy Garretson has taught classes on sitcom directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and has been a guest speaker for multiple courses at both the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she now teaches a graduate course on directing, and the Screenwriting Program at UCLA.
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Additionally, Katy Garretson has remained active as an alumna of USC.